Improved package-case



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO HENRY D. STOVER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

INI PROVED PACKAGE-CASE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 31,569. dated February 26, 1861 antedaied August 26, 1860.

To @ZZ whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY D: STovEE, of the State, county, and city of New York, have invented a new and useful Packing-Case; and I hereby declare that the following specification, in connection with the accompanying drawings and letters of reference, constitute a lucid, clear, and exact description of the construction and uses of the same in reference to the said drawings.

Figure 1 denotes a side elevation and vertical section; Fig. 2, ahorizontal section on line A B of Fig. l; Fig. 3, a section of case made of staves. Fig. 4 shows a section of the cover, the main part of which is made of larger diameter than the case, and having a metal ring crimped to receive and hold the main part therein.

The nature of my invention consists in so constructing the body of my packing-case that it is formed of a single piece of wood and secured in its position by a side clamp; in securing the cover' to the body of the case by pins, the metal of the cover having a slot to hold the cover securely on when placed over the pins in the body ofthe case; in securing the metal ring of the cover to the wood ofthe cover in such a manner as to keep only the wood next the substance to be packed and secure the metal firmly to the top; in securing the pins for holding the cover to a metal bar secured down the sides of the case by riveting; also, in forming the covers by crimping asheetmetal ring, into which crimp the cover, of wood, is sprung or pressed to hold them firmly together.

'Io enable persons skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to construct and carry out the saine, I will describe it as follows: I construct the body of my packing-case A of a single or double piece of wood, bent on a former, and secured in the desired position by means of the clamp A. The sides of the case are butted together, and an angular slot cut in each side, and the metal clamp A placed therein. These slots or kerfs made in case A,

and also the lips which are formed on bars G, are made sufficiently convergent and correspondent with each other so that the act of pressing these bars on and their converging lips into these converging slots or kerfs will firmly draw and retain the joint of the caseA together, iirst being thoroughly iilled with glue or other substance to cause the parts to adhere each to the other rmly and eftectually prevent the substance contained in the case from coming in contact with the metal clamp A. The case may be made of staves, as seen at Fig. 4, if desired.

At B is seen a pin, over which I place the radial slot C, formed in the metal ring D of the cover E. This radial slot C causes the cover E to press gradually onto the body of the case A when entered and turned, and to securely hold it thereto when so turned and required to be kept in place; or the cover E is secured to the body A over the pins B by means of the T-slot F, for the purpose of shoving the cover E over the pins B and turning either to the right or left, and thus holding the cover E rin and secure.

I secure the metal ring D to the cover E by means of a recess, E, formed in the wooden cover E, into which the metal ring D is pressed or spun, thereby securing it firmly to the wo0den top E and preventing it coming in contact with whatever is packed inside of the case.

I construct a cover (seen at Fig. 3) by irst crimping astrip of sheet metal, which is afterward bent or made into a ring, a section of which is seen at B', Fig. 3, the ends of which are united by soldering or otherwise, the inner diameter of which ring is a little larger than the outside of case A, so that it may be placed thereon readily. The cover part A is made round and of suitable size and shape to be sprung or pressed into crimp formed in ring B', and by that means and in that manner the two parts composing the cover are cheaply and securely united together.

I secure the pins B for holding on the cover E to a metal bar, G, the metal bar G extending down the sides of the body A, and secured thereto by means of the metal rivets, (seen at (u) thus strengthening the bodyA and causing the strain, if any, of holding down the cover E to come equally upon several point-s.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

I. The body of the case A, with the clamp A', to secure the ends of the saine, arranged and constructed as and for the purposes fully set forth.

2. The formation of slots C in the rings D at 2 l SL56!) un angle with the cover-surface when so coinbined with pins B and bars G that the :tot of ixing the cover to the easewill draw and retain their surfaces of Contact tightly together.

3. Securing the metal ring D to the Wooden cover E by ineens of the recesses E, formed in the side'thereof', substantially as and Yfor the purposes fully set forth.

4. The cover constructed by crimping :t strip of sheet metal, B', und then forming it into a ring, and into which crimp :L disk or cover piece of Wood, A', is sprung or pressed, and thus united, substantially as and for the purpose set forth, or the mechanical equivalents thereof. y

H D. STOVER. 

